Friday, December 26, 2008

We’ve added a new member to our family here at Wu Orthodontics. We would like to extend the warmest of welcomes to Jenny Gudino, our new registered Dental Assistant (RDA).

Jenny comes to us with over 12 years of dental and orthodontic experience. She loves meeting new patients and watching their positive transformations thought their entire treatment. We are very excited to have Jenny join our team, and we look forward to all of the “Wunderful” contributions she will bring to our practice.

Please join us in welcoming Jenny to the team at Wu Orthodontics! Leave us a comment so we can share with Jenny how welcoming and friendly her new community is!! To find out more about Jenny, and the rest of our great team, visit our web site.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Dr. Wu believes in continuing education, particularly when it comes to learning the latest techniques and advancements in orthodontics. Recently, Dr. Wu attended a conference on Temporary Anchorage Devices, or TADs.

Temporary Anchorage Devices are micro implants. The devices are temporarily fixed to bone of the tooth in order to enhance the orthodontic anchorage. This can happen in one of two ways. First, it may support the teeth of the reactive unit or it may remove the need for the reactive unit altogether. In the latter case, the micro implant is subsequently removed after use.

These high tech appliances will eliminate the need for headgear, distalizers, and further reduce the need for extractions. Dr. Wu even had one placed on himself to see if it was painful and he didn't even feel a thing. This is a great advancement for patients who may need true molar intrusion; TADs reduce the need for prosthetic crown reduction, in some cases.

Friday, December 5, 2008

This past October, we decided to celebrate Halloween with all of our little “WUnderful” smiles! After all, Halloween is really a time for children, imagination, and celebration. So, Wu Orthodontics held a Pumpkin Painting contest! Oh, the children of Wu Orthodontics loved it.

We had some very creative and hard work put into this year's Wu Orthodontics Pumpkin Painting contest! We really have many creative and gifted children in Palo Alto. I was hard to narrow down who was the best painter! So, in the end, the staff of Wu Orthodontics decided to create a few different categories, such as happiest, spookiest, and most cuddly.

Winners received Damon Dollar tokens as well as gift certificates to Jamba Juice! Palo Alto mothers had to love that prize – a tasty Halloween treat for their young ones that wouldn’t rot their teeth!

"Have a WUnderful day!"

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I treat my patients like extended family members and I especially enjoy the relationships I am able to establish with patients and their families during and after orthodontic treatment. I am looking forward to providing you with cutting edge orthodontic treatment with excellent service. We are here to give you a "Wu"nderful smile!

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More About Dr. Eric Wu

A graduate of Gunn High School in Palo Alto, I received my Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego. I had a one-year hiatus working as a plant molecular biology research assistant at the Salk Institute in La Jolla before going to dental school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. My clinical training included a one-month stint at Guy's Kings St. Thomas Medical/Dental College in London, England. After graduating from Penn in 2000, I did a one-year Advanced Education General Dentistry residency at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I treated complex interdisciplinary cases and learned a lot on occlusion, aesthetics and how an ideal "bite" should be. Upon finishing that program, I worked as a general dentist for one year in Los Angeles in a cosmetic dental practice. I did my orthodontic residency at the University of Pittsburgh. I am a member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, and the Midpeninsula Dental Society. I am a certified Invisalign provider. I enjoy keeping up to date with the latest technology and treatments and attend continuing education courses on a regular basis. I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese as well as being proficient in German. In my spare time, I enjoy mountain climbing, hiking, golfing in the Bay Area, and I love to travel.